Diabetes News June 9th 2008

June 9th 2008

Aggressive approach to diabetes proves harmful
Patients with type 2 diabetes, a high risk of cardiovascular disease, and who use aggressive measures to reduce their blood sugar levels could actually be shortening their lives, according to a large clinical trial [Nature News, UK]

Intensive Glucose Control Reduces Diabetic Nephropathy
Intensive glucose control significantly reduces the risk for nephropathy, according to the results of a 5-year trial to assess the effects of intensive glucose control and blood pressure lowering on vascular complications of type 2 diabetes [Medscape]

Panel Calls for Better Diabetes Screening
Better screening and diagnosis for diabetes is being called for to help the 6.2 million Americans who don’t realize they have the disease, a new report says [Washingtonpost.com, USA]

Eleven New NDST Infopoints
Infopoints are good stories or examples of good practice that other people in the diabetes community should know about. There are an addtional eleven new NDST Infopoints for you to read and download [National Diabetes Support Team, NHS, UK]

Dipeptidyl Peptidase-IV Inhibitors: Pharmacological Profile and Clinical Use
One DPP-IV inhibitor is available for use in the United States, and the approval of a second agent is imminent. DPP-IV inhibitors offer a safe and efficacious method for modestly reducing hyperglycemia alone or in combination with other agents in patients with type 2 diabetes without causing weight gain, significant hypoglycemia, or other major side effects [Clinical Diabetes]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring: The Future of Diabetes Management
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology has the potential to revolutionize diabetes care in the near future because of the real-time feedback it provides about therapeutic interventions and variations in lifestyle or dietary intake. Abstract [Diabetes Spectrum]

Vitamin D for Babies May Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
A new analysis of current research provides “the strongest evidence to date” that giving small children supplemental vitamin D will help prevent them from developing type 1 diabetes later on [American Diabetes Association]

Eating Away from Home
tips for health professionals and consumers on making healthier food choices when you are not at home [Canadian Diabetes Association]

Merck Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes.
Later this year, the Foundation will announce several five-year health care disparities and diabetes programs in selected communities around the country. Competitive Call for Proposals and letters of intent [Merck, USA]

Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications of Diabetes
It is important for physicians to understand the relationship between diabetes and vascular disease because the prevalence of diabetes continues to increase in the United States, and the clinical armamentarium for primary and secondary prevention of these complications is also expanding [Clinical Diabetes Journal]

Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Statement
Data from Local Delivery Plan Returns shows that by December 2007 85.7 percent of people diagnosed with diabetes were offered screening for diabetic retinopathy that met stringent national clinical standards of quality and safety in the previous twelve months. -page PDF [DoH, UK]

Mothers’ High Normal Blood Sugar Levels Place Infants at Risk for Birth Problems
Pregnant women with blood sugar levels in the higher range of normal — but not high enough to be considered diabetes — are more likely than women with lower blood sugar levels to give birth to babies at risk for many of the same problems seen in babies born to women with diabetes during pregnancy, according to a study funded in large part by the [National Institutes of Health, USA]

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